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Rock Music Scholarship, Monica Berger
Rock Music Scholarship, Monica Berger
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My challenge is to take my master’s thesis, a lengthy annotated bibliography of academic monographs on rock in American culture, and make it come alive and, in the process, provide a sense of how the academic rock discourse has evolved.
To Cite Or Not To Cite? Confronting The Legacy Of (European) Writing On African Music, Kofi Agawu
To Cite Or Not To Cite? Confronting The Legacy Of (European) Writing On African Music, Kofi Agawu
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English Abstract:
The current citational practice in Western scholarship is ideologically loaded, being far more suited to a written economy than a primarily oral culture in which knowledge is preserved in memory and disseminated through repeated performance. The impact of orality on musical scholarship should be more closely investigated; African scholars have all too often become informants rather than theorists of their own traditions. It is therefore proposed that the routine citation of a body of scholarship developed without Africa's historically-specific intellectual needs and ambitions in mind should in fact be discouraged.
German Abstract:
Die heutige Zitierpraxis der westlichen Wissenschaft …
Edward Said And The Study Of Music, Kofi Agawu
Edward Said And The Study Of Music, Kofi Agawu
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My first encounter with Edward Said’s work was in the 1980s with the book, Beginnings: Intention and Method (1975). I was exploring a semiotic approach to late 18th-century music, specifically, a beginning-middle-ending paradigm (an Aristotelian paradigm) that seemed to me to capture the rhetorical intentions of Classic composers. Said’s wide-ranging reflections and ruminations on beginnings – as inaugural moments, as sites for the establishment of difference, as authorially privileged moments, and as "first steps in the intentional production of meaning" – proved inspiring. My enduring impression of him at the time was that he was a very good …
Stacking The Wax: The Structure Of Laura Nyro's Studio Albums, Patricia Spence Rudden
Stacking The Wax: The Structure Of Laura Nyro's Studio Albums, Patricia Spence Rudden
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Mode, Melody, And Harmony In Traditional Afro-Cuban Music: From Africa To Cuba., Peter L. Manuel
Mode, Melody, And Harmony In Traditional Afro-Cuban Music: From Africa To Cuba., Peter L. Manuel
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No abstract provided.
Review Of Help!, Michael Adams
Review Of Help!, Michael Adams
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Review of Richard Lester's Help!: http://www.media-party.com/discland/2008/01/help.html